Country Kitchen Ideas and designs

White Aga in Country Kitchen by Ben Pentreath

The white Aga in the kitchen of
interior designer Ben Pentreath's country house was
installed in the Sixties. Ben added the wooden floor, painted in Farrow &
Ball's 'Hardwick White', and found the glazed wall cupboard in
a junk shop.

'Although we did a lot of rescuing,
it doesn't look over-restored,' the designer says. 'The kitchen
floor, for example, needed replacing. As there was a patch of old
stone flagging, I had hoped there would be more beneath the
linoleum. Of course, there wasn't, so we simply glued wooden boards
on top of the existing floor and painted them dove grey. It looks
really nice and happily maintains the fiction that nothing much has
happened here in the past 200 years.'